From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 30 11:21: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-66.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDAC37B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ACAB5671A4; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:20:59 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Nate Williams Cc: Doug Barton , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Message-ID: <20010530112059.B68285@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <005e01c0e913$0803a180$3028680a@tgt.com> <3B152F04.87623501@DougBarton.net> <15125.14210.469974.316853@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15125.14210.469974.316853@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:10:10PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:10:10PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > What's sad is that people who don't understand the issues involved are > > jumping on bandwagons that they shouldn't. Darren and the FreeBSD core = team > > are already in the process of clarifying that FreeBSD's use of IPfilter= is > > "with permission," and therefore falls within the parameters of the > > license.=20 >=20 > I think everyone understand that, but what if another entity (not > FreeBSD) takes the FreeBSD code and modifies it for use in an > embedded product. Are they allowed to modify the ipf source code > for use inside of their product, like they are capable of doing with > the rest of the source tree. This is the single-biggest difference > between Linux and *BSD from a non-technical point of view, and the > reason that I help found the FreeBSD project and didn't go they way > of Linux/GNU/GPL. This question is well-understood by everyone involved, and is one of the points being clarified. Kris --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FToKWry0BWjoQKURAiFOAJ43uS/IIB2a2zBaoxno2a9hu3+JhACgjzh1 SCc1xflLbEo9YIf2i6dhk8c= =6wK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message